[Discuss] Avoiding paying Windows license in the US

[Bill Bogstad]

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 8:05 AM Julian Daich
<julian.daich at freecomputerlabs.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got a new HP laptop from Microcenter and still did not open it- Any
> idea how to
> avoid paying the Windows license before installing GNU/ Linux?

While I have heard of people managing to get small amounts of money
back, I'm not aware of anybody doing
this in a repeatable way in the US.   FYI, wikipedia actually has a
relevant article on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

Good Luck,
Bill Bogstad